May 30, 2012 AT 2:33 pm

DIY Standalone Arduino on an Adafruit Perma-Proto Board

Recently I purchased enough parts to make 10 Arduinos, following this tutorial.

The reason for this is that you get a price break on most parts when buying 10 or more.

Because of this, I was able to get the cost of each one to under $10, not including some parts I already had. This will save me a lot of money in the long run.

Looks great on those Perma-Proto boards.

Adafruit Perma-Proto Half-sized Breadboard PCB – 3 Pack! Customers have asked us to carry basic perf-board, but we never liked the look of most basic perf: its always crummy quality, with pads that flake off and no labeling. Then we thought about how people actually prototype – usually starting with a solderless breadboard and then transferring the parts to a more permanent PCB. That’s when we realized what people would really like is a proto board that makes it easy!

Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.

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I did this exact project — except I compressed my breadboard space to the bare minimum to give a little proto area for the rest of the project. Fun use for a perma-proto if you want to disguise the fact that you’re using Arduino. 😉